![]() Hit single and album opener Poison was his first Top 10 hit since 1977, and finally he had a solid album to back it up with – the first since his early days as a solo artist following the break-up of the Alice Cooper band. It was a nice surprise to receive it in the mail – the 2017 Music On Vinyl reissue – to discover that it is on transparent red vinyl, limited to 1,500 copies.Ī comeback album of sorts, it represents a late-career resurgence (now considered a mid-career resurgence) for Cooper. I don’t think I ever owned a copy of this at the time, except perhaps a copy taped from my old friend Vini, but it’s nice to finally own it. The orange vinyl and Draw The Line-influenced artwork is a nice touch too.Īn important album for me in my teens, Trash is the eleventh solo studio album by Alice Cooper. ![]() Not only does this recording feature a performance of Chip Away The Stone – at that point still officially unreleased ( a live version would eventuate on Live! Bootleg, and a studio version would be released in support of the album) – it also features a run-through of Get It Up, a Draw The Line deep cut, which you don’t hear them play past this tour. I expect the spaces between songs were far longer, as Tyler and Perry argued over drugs on stage while the other three tuned up and looked on. The judicious editing on this record, making one song run almost effortlessly into the next, feels a little manipulative. To be fair, it’s a good mix of absolutely sloppy playing, and muscle-memory precision. Quality-wise, it’s as good as most of the material on Live! Bootleg, and captures the band when their drug addictions were becoming more important than their playing. It’s a heavily abridged set, featuring just 11 of the 17 tracks the band played that night. Recorded in Boston in March 1978 on the Draw The Line tour (my second bootleg from that tour after November 1977’s 5 The Hard Way!), the recording is from a radio broadcast, with its closing track ( Toys In The Attic) lifted for the same year’s officially released Live! Bootleg double-album. My quest to find a bootleg from all of Aerosmith’s tours through the 1970s and 1980s continues with this recently released gem. It was easily the thing that surprised me the most on this release. Instead of the crescendo finale on the studio version, here we get a piano ending which includes the main piano motif from You See Me Crying, the ballad that closes 1975’s TOYS IN THE ATTIC. Already fully-formed (which is not surprising given that Tyler wrote the song four years before Aerosmith formed) but with the odd different lyric, it’s a fairly familiar version of the arrangement until we get to the end of the song. Quite a few of the tracks from the 1973 debut album feature with slightly different arrangements here, and the biggest change is on future hit Dream On. Side two starts with Movin’ Out, followed by Major Barbara – the long lost Aerosmith song that was recorded for GET YOUR WINGS but ultimately left off an official release until a studio outtake was tacked onto the end of 1986’s CLASSICS LIVE! The crazy thing about the version played here is that the end of the song descends into a merry-go-round melody lifted from nursery rhyme Little Tommy Tucker, gathering in speed until they can’t go any faster. The intro track includes Joe Perry and Brad Whitford jamming on Fleetwood Mac’s Albatross, before the rest of the band come in on a blustering version of Somebody.Ī run-through of Reefer Head Woman comes next, eight years before it would appear on 1979’s NIGHT IN THE RUTS, before a slowed-down version of Walkin’ The Dog closes side one. In fact, it’s amazing how good it sounds given there’s no separation for the instruments not too far away in quality from something like the 1973 Paul’s Mall radio performance (part of which was pulled for PANDORA’S BOX).Īs for the material covered, it’s a run through of many of the songs that would land on their debut album – but there are some interesting additions. Recorded on just two microphones (one for Steven Tyler’s vocal, the other pointed at the rest of the band), it should sound ropey. ![]() Recorded in a long-forgotten location (either a rehearsal room or pre-gig soundcheck – nobody in the liner notes seems to be sure), these 7 songs were recorded as a demo on Joe Perry’s two-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder by their one-man road crew Mark Lehman. So thirty years later, Aerosmith fans have something new to listen to – and it’s their earliest ever recording – pre-dating their 1973 debut by two years. This release is hopefully the start of something new, given that the band have now brought their entire back catalogue under UMG. It’s almost laughable that this is Aerosmith’s first archival release since 1991 (!) when Columbia released PANDORA’S BOX to cash-in on the band’s comeback on Geffen. My most awaited release of 2021 has finally landed.
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